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Carrie Ahern (Saturday and Sunday) This dance installation, “SeNSATE,” takes place in an underground bank vault on Wall Street, perhaps reason enough to go and see Ms. Ahern’s dancers, accompanied by Anne Hege’s electronic score. Each session lasts three hours, and spectators can stay as little or long as they like. Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 4 p.m., the Vault at 14 Wall Street, Lower Manhattan , (800) 838-3006, brownpapertickets.com; $25; $15 for artists and students. (Roslyn Sulcas)20100930

★ Batsheva Dance Company (Friday through Sunday) Ohad Naharin’s “Project 5” was created for a female quintet, but the last few performances of this hourlong sampler program will be danced by a male cast. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea , (212) 242-0800, joyce.org; $10 to $59. (Sulcas)20100930

Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud (Thursday) The intriguingly named “Sylphides,” from the Argentina-born Ms. Bengolea and the French Mr. Chaignaud, is part of Trajal Harrell’s platform “certain difficulties, certain joy” at Danspace Project. Mr. Harrell’s own work suggests a sure eye and definite tastes; his choices are likely to repay watching. (Through Oct. 8.) At 8 p.m., Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, 131 East 10th Street, East Village , (866) 811-4111, danspaceproject.org; $18. (Sulcas)20100930

Aitana Cordero and Daria Faïn (Friday and Saturday) Ms. Cordero is a Spanish choreographer based in Amsterdam. Ms. Faïn is a French choreographer living in New York. Ms. Cordero is presenting a piece called “Solo ...?” Ms. Faïn, who has long been making intriguing pieces, is performing with the six-member vocal ensemble Magic Names, which will sing a shortened version of Stockhausen’s “Stimmung.” That’s about as much as you can say about this performance without falling into dance-speak. (O.K., here is a little from the Danspace Web site: “Aitana Cordero confronts sculptural practice and offers new insights into multidisciplinary perspectives.” You see?) At 8 p.m., Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, 131 East 10th Street, East Village , (866) 811-4111, danspaceproject.org; $18. (Sulcas)20100930

★ Fall for Dance (Friday through Sunday, and Wednesday and Thursday) City Center’s Fall for Dance festival offers a smorgasbord this week, with each performance only $10 a ticket. The problem is getting said ticket. But if you can beg, borrow, steal or even buy one, each of the three programs this week has pleasures in store — some known, some to discover. On Friday night the Company Rafaela Carrasco, the New York City Ballet, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and the Companhia Urbana de Dança give their second and last performances of the festival. On Saturday and Sunday, Shu-yi Chou & Dancers, the San Francisco Ballet, Emanuel Gat Dance and the Paul Taylor Dance Company perform. And on Wednesday and Thursday the show includes Keigwin + Company; Corella Ballet Castilla y Leon (the young company run by the American Ballet Theater principal Angel Corella, who will perform with his sister, Carmen); the Britain-based Russell Maliphant Dance Company; and the brilliant tapper Jason Samuels Smith with the hip-hop dancer Mr. Wiggles. (Through Oct. 9.) Friday, Saturday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m.; City Center, 131 West 55th Street, Manhattan , (212) 581-1212, nycitycenter.org; sold out. (Sulcas)20100930

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana (Thursday) A brief history of flamenco is the subject of this popular troupe’s “Bailaor/Bailaora,” offered alongside “Estilos Flamencos,” a suite of solos and duets. (Through Oct. 9.) At 7:30 p.m., Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street , (212) 864-5400, symphonyspace.org; $35; $20 for students and 65+; $15 for children. (Sulcas)20100930

★ Neal Medlyn (Friday and Saturday) Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus are both characters in Mr. Medlyn’s “Brave New Girl,” the second part of the work that the Chocolate Factory Web site describes as his Britney Spears/Hannah Montana “opus” — not, perhaps a word often paired with the work of Ms. Spears or the fictional Ms. Montana. Mr. Medlyn makes use of Ms. Cyrus’s Twitter account, interviews, films and television scripts as well as his own versions thereof. (And, one hopes, her dance routines.) It sounds irresistible. At 8 p.m., the Chocolate Factory, 5-49 49th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens , (212) 352-3101, chocolatefactorytheater.org; $15. (Sulcas)20100930

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★ New York City Ballet (Friday through Sunday, and Tuesday through Thursday) After redisplaying some of the ballets created for the company’s spring Architecture of Dance festival, the troupe now mostly reverts to its usual repertory. But what a repertory that is. Just this weekend’s programming boasts Balanchine masterpieces like “Concerto Barocco,” “Chaconne,” “Serenade,” “Monumentum pro Gesualdo” and “Movements for Piano and Orchestra.” On Saturday afternoon Tiler Peck and Joaquin De Luz, two of the company’s best dancers, make their debuts in Peter Martins’s “Magic Flute” (1981), revived this season. And on Thursday night the company holds its fall gala, with as its centerpiece a new work, Benjamin Millepied’s “Plainspoken,” to a commissioned score by David Lang. There will also doubtless be Society and Important Dresses, particularly since Sarah Jessica Parker is the honorary chairwoman of the event. (Last time she served as a City Ballet gala host, she changed dresses three times. Just so that you know we appreciated the effort, Ms. Parker.) (Through Oct. 10.) Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday (gala) at 7 p.m.; David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center , (212) 870-5570, nycballet.com; $20 to $135. (Sulcas)20100930

Olive Dance Theater (Friday and Saturday) The breakdance innovator Ken Swift is honored in a show devoted to his legacy, with both solos and ensemble work. Mr. Swift, who enjoyed some broader fame with Rock Steady Crew, thanks to the 1983 movie “Flashdance,” is now venerable enough for his work to be the subject of a National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces grant, which enabled the Philadelphia group Olive Dance Theater to reconstruct and stage his work. Will something be lost in translation on other bodies? It should be interesting to see. At 7.30 p.m., Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea , (212) 924-0077, dancetheaterworkshop.org; $20. (Sulcas)20100930

RAW Material This performance series offers work from a broad selection of emerging artists. It’s a chance to discover the Next Big Thing. (Oct. 7-8.) At 8 p.m., Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, at Chambers Street, Lower Manhattan , (212) 625-8369, dnadance.org; $17; $14 for students and 65+. (Sulcas)20100930

Sankai Juku (Tuesday through Thursday) Ushio Amagatsu’s Paris-based Butoh troupe is justly famous for its striking visual effects and highly stylized theatricality. The company comes to the Joyce for the first time with Mr. Amagatsu’s most recent work, “Tobari — as if in an Inexhaustible Flux.” Press materials describe the work as exploring the journey of life, death and rebirth, but that’s generally true of all Butoh work in which time — slowed down, speeded up, implacably passing — is what the dance makes visible. (Through Oct. 17.) Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday at 8 p.m.; Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea , (212) 242-0800, joyce.org; $10 to $59. (Sulcas)20100930

★ Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (Friday and Saturday, Monday and Tuesday and Thursday) This is the Tanztheater Wuppertal’s first visit to the United States since the 2009 death of its great choreographer-director, Pina Bausch. An entire genre of dance — tanztheater, or dance theater — evolved in the unlikely German town of Wuppertal after Bausch took over the company in 1973, and she became internationally famous for the epic productions that often featured visually sensational sets and wrenching vignettes of life both quotidian and fantastical. Her 2006 “Vollmond” takes place on a stage dominated by a huge boulder and filled with rushing water, and it is doubtless filled with the strange, dreamlike activities and flowing, calligraphic movement that make Bausch’s dance universe a place like no other. Don’t miss. (Through Oct. 9.) At 7.30 p.m., Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene , (718) 636-4100, bam.org; $25 to $85. (Sulcas)20100930

Katie Workum Dance Theater (Friday through Sunday) You certainly can’t deduce much about Katie Workum’s new work, “Herkimer Diamonds,” from its title. Nor from the press materials, which are so fabulously opaque that they achieve an artistic status of their own. I quote: “At some point: everyone’s knees give out, you will be forced to give a wedding speech, hopefully will never see the eye of a hurricane, definitely will get all lost and distracted for a while, herd like a cattle dog, hold on forever and rip off your friend’s moves, us too.” If the piece lives up to this — and Ms. Workum’s 2008 “Carlisle” suggests it might — it will be well worth seeing. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m.; Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, at Chambers Street, Lower Manhattan , (212) 625-8369, dnadance.org; $17; $14 students and 65+. (Sulcas)20100930